Socionic quadras can't really be related to MBTI. If we made MBTI quadras that would be a different story, but people can be different socionics types than MBTI types, so it just gets messy when you use this. An example is that I'm an ISFj, a Gamma quadra member in socionics, but I'm INFP in MBTI. I also know an INFP that's an ENTp in socionics, my conflictor. It all just varies.

Making MBTI quadras has been on my list of ideas for a while to make. I've just been busy with school. I think it's as useful as temperament for determining your type. I've also wanted to make MBTI relationships... but anyways (not to derail).

As for the OP's idea, this theory is true for me. I would call them "opposites" while the totally reversed letters "conflicting". People with the middle two swapped have their brains set up in the same fashion, an example is an ISTP and an INFP would both have Ji, Pe, Pi, Je. So we have similar thought styles in a way, and we can relate to each other with how we act and such. Also with this with an ISTP's functions an INFP wouldn't really dislike them, but wouldn't find any common ground due to having no functions in common. So it's pretty much a neutral interaction. With opposite type interactions it can be "conflicting" because you are seeing your weaknesses thrown in your face.

Socionic quadras can't really be related to MBTI. If we made MBTI quadras that would be a different story, but people can be different socionics types than MBTI types, so it just gets messy when you use this. An example is that I'm an ISFj, a Gamma quadra member in socionics, but I'm INFP in MBTI. I also know an INFP that's an ENTp in socionics, my conflictor. It all just varies.

Making MBTI quadras has been on my list of ideas for a while to make. I've just been busy with school. I think it's as useful as temperament for determining your type. I've also wanted to make MBTI relationships... but anyways (not to derail).

As for the OP's idea, this theory is true for me. I would call them "opposites" while the totally reversed letters "conflicting". People with the middle two swapped have their brains set up in the same fashion, an example is an ISTP and an INFP would both have Ji, Pe, Pi, Je. So we have similar thought styles in a way, and we can relate to each other with how we act and such. Also with this with an ISTP's functions an INFP wouldn't really dislike them, but wouldn't find any common ground due to having no functions in common. So it's pretty much a neutral interaction. With opposite type interactions it can be "conflicting" because you are seeing your weaknesses thrown in your face.

I did say it was a very rough mapping.

I don't actually think they can be translated either, I was just trying to convey the idea of what quadras do in Socionics.

In my experience, I've observed that many people have developed both the introverted and extroverted form of one of their functions. (In Ps, usually their perceiving function; in Js, usually their judging function) The traditional ordering of functions for each type is more of a rough outline rather than an exact formula.

In short, the current relation between the Jungian cognitive functions(hereafter JCF) and MBTI is too sketchy. (This includes the shadow functions theory.) Even if we went about determining the opposite type by changing the ordering of the JCFs, the new ordering would still have something in common with the original ordering. Regardless of how they are reorganized, they still have something in common. In my opinion, the best "opposite" type is one with all of the letters inverted. (IE: The opposite of ISTJ would be ENFP.)

If a deaf INFP falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

We could still use the Quadra names and concepts for the corresponding MBTI groups (just keeping in mind the j/p switch for introverts), and I think that would be a good shorthand for differentiating the various cognitive preferences. You can also regroup them according to the individual process tandems, which is what I did here: http://www.typologycentral.com/forum...dem-names.html (though this was before I discovered the Socionics quadras). Each quadra is basically a combination of its two process tandems.